29 March 2022
Enfield Wellbeing Network (EWN) is a collaboration between a number of local community organisations, which aims to enable people to set and achieve realistic goals to improve their health and wellbeing. The Network, which has been set up by Age UK Enfield, Enfield Carers Centre, and Mind in Enfield and Barnet, is available for free to people over 18 who are at risk of, or are managing, deteriorating health and wish to make positive changes and/or manage long term conditions.
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09 February 2022
The amazing Cooking Champions are recruiting new volunteers to help them provide food support. There are information sessions in Grange Park on Saturday.
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09 February 2022
The Veteran's Support Project operated by Age UK Enfield provides advice and support, plus social events, for anyone who has served in the armed forces or done National Service. Support is also provided to the families of Veterans.
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01 February 2022
Enfield's Nightingale Cancer Support Centre has benefited from many fundraising efforts - but this one is truly remarkable!
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24 January 2022
On Thursday 24th March there's chance to meet TV presenter and gardener Christine Walkden at an event in Cuffley Hall raising money for the Nightingale Cancer Centre. Tickets are strictly limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.
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08 December 2021
Age UK Enfield, the leading organisation for older people in Enfield, has won two awards at the Great British Care Awards Regional Finals: the Covid Hero Team Award and the Outstanding Dementia Carer Award, which went to Andrew Hall..
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01 December 2021
This Saturday and Sunday, pop along to the North London Hospice's Wellbeing Centre in Barrowell Green to see Catching the Light 2, an exhibition of work by five members of the hospice's patient and family photography group.
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10 November 2021
A newspaper article has a photograph of the interior of St John's Church in Palmers Green piled high with boxes containing donations for Afghan refugees to this country. The church is continuing to provide meals to the hungry - more than 450 a week.
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08 November 2021
'This week we were all moved when a courageous couple told us they were genuinely starving and had walked over four miles to come to us with the simple request of some food. Their circumstances had involved a hard choice of eviction or starvation and they had chosen the latter. How can it be right that such a basic human need is not being met for so many in our borough?'
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20 October 2021
Age UK Enfield have launched a new service for women over 50 living in Enfield or Haringey who are recovering from cancer treatment. This Girl Can, which is funded by Sport England, provides a series of exercise sessions, trying out different sessions each week, with the aim of building self confidence and wellbeing.
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12 October 2021
As its twentieth anniversary approaches, the Nightingale Cancer Support Centre is this year expanding its annual Fashion Show and running the first Nightingale Fashion Week, from 11th to 15th Octobe
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28 September 2021
A free support and counselling service is being offered to people who live, work or study in Enfield and whose mental health has been severely impacted by Covid-19.
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15 September 2021
This Sunday Broomfield Bowl will be the venue for the first ever Palmers Green Food Festival. And who better to take charge of the spoons and ladles, pots and pans and kitchen teams than PG's own Cooking Champion, Clare Donovan?
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14 September 2021
Are you a woman over 50 in Enfield, recovering from illness or Cancer? Ready to get moving and get a confidence boost? Join us for 12 FREE fitness sessions to boost self confidence and wellbeing, improve fitness, energy levels, strength, balance and coordination.
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22 August 2021
The charity End Child Poverty is recruiting End Child Poverty Youth Ambassadors. The deadline for applying to become one is 6th September. Please share with organisations, schools and individuals who might be interested.
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03 August 2021
Enfield charity Zebras, which supports adults and children with learning disabilities, has launched an appeal for money to keep its Children's Club in operation. This is a unique inclusive club for children with disabilities and their siblings and has been running since 2015, but the pandemic has severely impacted the charity's fundraising.
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21 July 2021
On 21st August the Nightingale Cancer Support Centre will be celebrating 19 years of work to help cancer patients and their families. They'd love to invite you round to their offices in Baker Street for a birthday party, but there just isn't room for everyone and at the moment celebrating is best done outdoors. So they're inviting you to help them celebrate by getting together with family, friends, work colleagues, neighbours (anyone!) and going for a 10 kilometre walk to raise some much needed funds.
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16 July 2021
Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy sessions offer an opportunity to meet other people living with dementia, and take part in a wide range of activities in a friendly, caring and supportive environment. Age UK Enfield is running a six-month project - places are limited.
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07 July 2021
North London Hospice's Out of Hours Service needs your URGENT help to keep it going. Our patients and families need us 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Just because it's the middle of the night doesn’t mean the need decreases; for many people that's when they need us most.
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